'Trivium' definitions:

Definition of 'trivium'

(from WordNet)
noun
(Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric; considered to be a triple way to eloquence

Definition of 'Trivium'

From: GCIDE
  • Trivium \Triv"i*um\, n. [LL. See Trivial.]
  • 1. The three " liberal" arts, grammar, logic, and rhetoric; -- being a triple way, as it were, to eloquence. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: The trivium and quadrivium together made up the seven liberal arts. See Quadrivium. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Zool.) The three anterior ambulacra of echinoderms, collectively. [1913 Webster]